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Virtual Conference 2022

Keepin’ it in the Community
The Power and Role of Collective Hope and Action for Crisis Recovery

Wednesday, June 29, 2022
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. PT

This page serves as an archive of recorded sessions.

The CARE TA Center hosted our second virtual conference in 2022. Focused on health equity within the crisis continuum of care and justice diversion, both conferences took an intersectional approach considering social determinants of health, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, homelessness, age, and lived experience with mental health challenges and recovery.

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Recorded Sessions

Welcome & Keynote

Learning Tracks

The following learning tracks were available at the conference:

Track 1: Children, Youth, and Young Adult Crisis Care
Track 2: Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams
Track 3: Crisis Care and Disaster Response in 2022
Track 4: Justice Diversion
Track 5: Cultural Considerations for Crisis Care in the Community

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Welcome & Keynote

Thought leader from the Human Rights Campaign discussed how LGBTQ+ youth are impacted by the lack of allyship and how to integrate their voice into your work.

Learning Track 1:
Children, Youth, and Young Adult Crisis Care

During our first two years at School Crisis Recovery and Renewal (SCRR) project, we had multiple school sites, districts and counties ask us about suicide postvention. And this past year was heavy for so many: the combination of uncertainty, isolation, and prevalence of suicidal behaviors has heightened the importance of paying increased attention to how communities, especially school communities, can effectively recover and renew after a school community experiences a death by suicide.

Because we at SCRR are about what happens after a crisis (recovery), we wanted to create space and place for this national conversation. This past year, we’ve held monthly community of practices with county leaders, state system administrators, grief counselors, suicide survivors, and many other thought-leaders to explore where the field is now, and where it can go (e.g., what does long term postvention look like? Should it even be called “postvention”?). Though postvention occurs after death by suicide, the work we do highly impacts support the needs of the survivors.

During this session, county panelists from Marin County Youth Empowerment Services and Humboldt Bridges to Success reflected on experiences providing crisis services for children, youth, and young adults, collaboration across child and youth-serving agencies and entities, and the impact of the pandemic and other challenges on children, youth, and young adults.

During this session, panelists from Stanford Sierra Youth and Families shared real-life examples of how communities empower and engage youth to focus on equity and social justice, explored the interconnectedness of substance use and social determinants of health, and identified opportunities to integrate health, equity, racial and social justice approaches into prevention services.

Learning Track #2:
Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams

One of the most challenging aspects of homeless services delivery often arise around advocating for clients specifically related to housing access and meeting basic needs. Many outreach workers often must advocate within the larger community to expand services and supports, raise awareness about the complexities and challenges of ending homelessness and how best to support those who are experiencing it, or those who will be in the very near future. Homeless advocates also often endure significant courtesy stigma and bias from the mainstream and provider community for the work they perform, and advocating for proper care and treatment of people experiencing homelessness raises their visibility and their vulnerability within those communities. The panel consisted of four formerly homeless individuals and a former outreach worker, all of whom are currently working in some capacity as advocates for people experiencing homelessness.

During this session, county panelists from Humboldt Mobile Response Team, Riverside Crisis Residential Treatment & Adult Residential Treatment, and CARE TA Center reflected on experiences implementing Mobile Crisis Units from successes to how various counties overcome barriers.

Learning Track #3:
Crisis Care and Disaster Response in 2022

Crisis Continuum of Care service providers are on the frontlines of responding to behavioral health emergencies during disasters from the COVID-19 pandemic to California’s wild fires. In this session we heard from experts from RI International who take a systems approach to meeting the ever increasing needs of community experiencing crises related to mental health, substance use, and violence in 2022. Explore the adjustments that crisis care services are making to meet the changing needs of community and crisis care staff from safety protocol to personnel processes and personal protective equipment.

Social Workers are critical staff to both crisis continuum of care and emergency disaster response services. This session explored the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics as a guiding document for social workers to approach anti-racist, trauma-informed, and healing centered systems change at the intersection of crisis care and disaster response in 2022. Participants learned culturally-responsive applications of evidence based practices in safety plans, means restriction, and overdose prevention adjusted to the realities of our contemporary and local challenges with diverse populations in California.

Learning Track #4:
Justice Diversion

This session walked through how we put into action equitable systemic solutions with the voices most heavily represented in the criminal justice system and under supported in mental and behavioral health services. Attendees learned how to pull together a diverse stakeholder group most often not heard, gather their experiences, build solutions in partnership with those stakeholders, and walk with them in developing implementation of the solutions created. This organizing strategy focuses on equitable and trauma informed engagement, stakeholder empowerment, and transformational change for those most directly impacted by the sometimes harmful behavioral healthcare and criminal justice systems in place.

Using the epidemiology of incarceration to understand the intersections of Trauma, Gender and Justice and the necessity to disrupt practices, processes and programs that do not support Gender Justice and Reentry as a whole. Presented by one of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes and author of Invisible Bars, Barriers to Women Heath and Well-Being.

Learning Track #5:
Cultural Considerations for Crisis Care in the Community

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